"If you take my house, you gone have to kill me, and I mean it,"

There have been 5 different community meetings in Detroit in the last month to discuss the master plan at relocating residents from blighted neighbourhoods and then downsizing the city. As expected there is resistance from residents.

Virginia Pearson, president on the Bewick Block Club on the east side, said she had lived in her home for 61 years was adamant about not moving.

"If you take my house, you gone have to kill me, and I mean it," she said to applause.

Brittany Galisdorfer said she moved to Detroit three years ago from Ann Arbor "because of the authenticity and the character of the people."

"We should keep that in the forefront of our minds as we have these discussions," she said.

More interestingly, there are also all kinds of citizen proposals on what to do with the 'remaking" of Detroit. People talking about the complete altering of the urban idea.

He also suggested the city "become the recycling capital of the world," adding, "We can clean up this city and give everybody that doesn't have something to do on a daily basis something to do."

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